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ICEBlock App Developer Sues Trump Officials, Claims Apple Was Pressured to Remove App
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Can we all agree if “government asking social media companies to not promote COVID misinformation” is an assault on free speech the below is absolutely an assault on free speech?
I'm not disagreeing, but we don't rectify that by assuming everyone is always lying.
Explain, SPECIFICALLY, how this app which let people know to hide “made it likely for harm to come to them.” Furthermore, provide a SINGLE example of that happening as a result of this app. The only thing at risk of being harmed would be their bonus for hitting a quota.
That's not what the article says. According to the article, Apple told the developer, "Information provided to Apple by law enforcement shows that your app violates Guideline 1.1.1 because its purpose is to provide location information about law enforcement officers that can be used to harm such officers individually or as a group. For this reason, your app will be removed from the App Store."
What leads you to the conclusion that law enforcement making a company aware of someone violating the company's policies is just to placate an executive? Do the policies only apply if an executive disagrees with them?
How is it different than Apple Maps or Waze or many other apps providing law enforcement locations?
Potentially help me break the laws against speeding == good
Potentially help brown people avoid ICE == bad
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“Collateral damage” that we all just have to live with 🙄
Gotta break a few citizen eggs to make that racially pure omelette
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Yep, you're right. I only assume they are lying until proven otherwise, that is not always.
ICE under Obama’s administration held the most number of raids, detentions and deportations.
Back then liberals ignored it because they framed it as protecting local workers and stopping the exploitation of poor foreigners by capitalist factory owners and greedy landlords.
There’s a whole documentary on Netflix about how companies like American Apparel had slave labour like conditions in their factories until ICE raided them.
Now the exploitation, capitalist factory owners and greedy landlords are OK because the other party is in power.
That causes protests and tensions that bring out the worst in everyone, especially those who work in ICE.
It’s the American tradition - max enforcement against others, minimum enforcement against the in crowd.
Cops break the law - professional courtesy. Rich people kids break the law - they get a break because they come from a good family. Steal a few hundred dollars, go to prison. Steal a few million dollars, you just have to pay some of it back. Employee steals from company, prison. Company steals wages from employee, maybe just pay some back.
Weird. So in reality, the left does support deportations of illegal immigrant as long as they’re not done in a cruel and indiscriminate way. Somebody better let the right know so they can apologize for mischaracterizing the left’s position.
Removed the hyperbolic bits. However an alternative interpretation is Tim Cook supports the safety and privacy of those involved.
I think this is more along the lines of, yes the app tells people were ICE is and as you can see from various news reports, ICE has been met with protests etc, and there now have been a couple of incidents of violence against the agents in question. So, the fact there is an app that allows people to know where other people that we know a lot of folks don't like, this is only asking for trouble. Whether it is a agent getting hurt, someone with bad intentions getting hurt, or an a bystander who is caught in the middle.
Really quota... 🤦♂️
Keep fighting the impossible extreme-left-wing CNN-corporatist boogie man you think exists.
Sure, but you’re giving people the benefit of the doubt who have showed over and over again that they don’t deserve it.
The app was debated publicly for three months with significant public pressure from the government. However, after a private phone call from the DOJ, Apple removed the app the same day. Bondi called it a “demand”. Just a coincidence?
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Why might citizens (and not just immigrants) want to avoid ICE? Because of this:
bsky.app
FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social)
Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care
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Just face facts: it was NOT like this. Not at all. You didn’t have fat, nasty societal dregs tear-gassing kids’ Halloween parades, but you do now! And you certainly never had Obama saying that people who questioned things were “traitors” or “seditious.”
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Why might women especially want to avoid ICE/CBP? This is why.
www.chicagotribune.com
Customs and Border Protection agent charged with using gun, badge to rob and rape sex workers in Chicago suburbs in 2022
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent has been charged in a federal indictment with robbing and raping women in Chicago’s suburbs in 2022, including at least one at gunpoint.
www.chicagotribune.com
Why might US citizens want to avoid ICE? This is why.
sahanjournal.com
U.S. citizen offered to show I.D. but was arrested by immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside
A Somali U.S. citizen, Mubashir, was arrested by federal immigration officers in Cedar-Riverside Tuesday during a mass enforcement.
sahanjournal.com
